No Premier League clubs made it into the Champions League or Europa League quarter-finals this season.

In addition, Chelsea are running away with the domestic league and are ten points clear at the top of the table.

And the 44-year-old Argentinian coach cannot get his head around why other English clubs are performing so badly.

In an article for Goal.com, Simeone wrote: "I am surprised there are no English clubs left in the Champions League - English football has enormous potential with its footballers and also its financial clout.

“The fact that there is no English team left in the last eight of the Champions League or in the Europa League is a wake-up call for the Premier League”

Diego Simeone

"The fact that there is no English team left in the last eight of the Champions League or in the Europa League is a wake-up call for the Premier League to look at why it is that, despite their great economic power and with all the many great footballers playing in England, Chelsea are so far ahead of everyone else and why they have no teams left in Europe.

"I believe there are many great players in the Premier League and the financial conditions allow a number of teams to bring in top talents."

Simeone's side face local rivals Real Madrid at the Bernabeu in the second leg of their Champions League fixture this evening.